§ salep - nyalep 1. v. § -- X nyalep Y / senalep = 'X imitates the appearance of Y in order to deceive people into believing that X really is Y' + X nyalepnyavu Y or X nyavunyalep Y (same meaning as above) | Akeu nyalep [nyavu] redo. 'I was disguised as a woman.' Redo senalep [senavu] ké'. 'It was a woman that I disguised myself.' Akeu nyalep Sylvia. 'I impersonated Sylvia.' Sylvia senalep ké'. 'It was Sylvia that was impersonated by me.' Lem ha' suket, tepun nyalep kelunan <tepun nyalep nyavu kelunan> kenéh redo lakei Penan tai lem luvang bateu. 'There is an old story in which the tiger disguises himself as a person in order to take the wife of a Penan man into a cave.' Lakei éh nyalep seradu kenéh masek uma seradu nekau selapang. 'A man who disguised himself as a soldier in order to enter the barracks to steal guns.' Layan néh iah nyavu nyalep layan tamen néh. 'He had altered his appearance to disguise himself as his father.' Gaya' temedo éh senalep balei inah. 'That spirit assumed the manner of a rhinoceros [in order to make people think there really was a rhinoceros there].' cf nyavu • disguise

§ salep - nyalepha' § -- X nyalepha' Y / senalep = 'X imitates the sound of Y in order to make it seem as if X really is Y' | Juhit kiong jam nyalep ha' kelunan. = Juhit kiong jam nyalep nyavu ha' kelunan. 'The minah bird is good at imitating human words.' Sahau irah Kayan jam nyalep nyavu ha' kelavet doko ke' ayau réh tai mu'a ha' inah. Tovo ayau avé, boh Kayan mematai réh. 'In the old days the Kayan would imitate the call of a gibbon so that their enemies would think there really was a gibbon and go to check out the sound. When the enemy got close, the Kayan would kill them.' Iah nyalep ha' kelavet seminga'. 'He imitated the sound of a gibbon for fun. (i.e. in order to fool people for fun).' Iah nyalep ha' babui. -- Bé' mu'un. Ha' temedo éh senalep néh. 'He imitated the sound of a pig (in order to deceive people into thinking a pig was present -- what a demon might do). -- That's not so. It was the sound of a rhinoceros that he imitated.' • imitate

§ samék n. = 'large long mat made of "da'un" that have been stitched together' (for covering roof, for sleeping on, or for use as a body-length umbrella) + telapsamék 'pocket-like space between the constituent layers of a "samék"'

§ saméksapau idiom. n. p. = '"samék" mat made for covering a roof' (normally rolled up and taken to each new encampment for re-use)

§ sanan n. = 'household (= group of people living together in one house or apartment)' + X jahsananawah 'X's household is on its own, i.e. is not in a community with other households' + sananpina 'a community consisting of a number of households' | Lem sanan iteu pu'un duah panak. 'In this household there are two families.' Lem lamin kebit iteu pu'un pat polo sanam. 'In this longhouse there are forty households.' Pu'un jah lakei ja'au éh murip tong tana'. Iah jah sanan awah. Jah redo néh, ngan lakei ja'au inah awah, anak roh bé' pu'un. 'There was once a man who lived in the forest. He lived alone with his wife, for they were childless.' Hun tamen Kekihan lakau mihin réh paso tai irah sanan pina sitai, irah pemung ngan irah sanan pina, Kekihan péh lah ja'au hun inah. 'When Tamen Kekihan moved them to a place where many other families lived, and they joined that community, Kekihan was grown up by then.' cf panak, payam • household

§ sangatpina idiom. n. p. = 'a measure of length equal to the distance between the tip of the index finger and its base on the side where the middle finger begins' + X kebittongsangatpina 'X is the length of a "sangat pina"' | Jipen babui kebit tong sangat pina -- babui ja'au. 'The pig's teeth are as long as one's index finger, as measured between the fingertip and the base of the finger on the side where it joins the middle finger -- it's a big pig.' Boh Bungan na'at éh mago mu'un mu'un kekat kekat selungan néh kato peloho avé maten néh kebit tong menen nah bua ojo masek tong kedilem maten lakei néh abing ri'. 'Bungan saw how emaciated he was. He was so thin that his bracelets were sliding right off his arms and legs. And her husband abing's eyes had sunk into his skull the distance of a finger joint.' cf menen, belu'an, meka'pu'un